With a focus on overall wellness and several interesting ways to achieve that, Swift Recovery is set to help clients feel better physically and mentally.
Before the opening, it’s been a mental and physical whirlwind for co-owners May Taylor and Suzanne Swift, general manager Lindsey Webb and others helping with the runup. Everything has been done, from cleaning, painting and deciding where to put equipment to hanging cool artwork and putting final touches on this week. Swift Recovery’s grand opening is June 15.
“Yessss, we’re so excited to finally get to this point,” Taylor said Tuesday afternoon. “It definitely has been a labor of love but it’s going to be worth it.”
Swift Recovery provides eight specific services to members and clients: contrast therapy, cryotherapy, vibroacoustic therapy, a NEO light bed, Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) therapy, lymphatic drainage, compression therapy and PNOE metabolic testing. Memberships are available. Single-visit pricing, and combo package pricing, varies for the service selected.
Swift Recovery is located in Valley Bend at Jones Farm, next door to Fleet Feet. The wellness center has been a consideration several months. Webb, the general manager, relocated from the Dallas area and has years of experience in the holistic and wellness field.
“Lindsey is fantastic!” Taylor said. “I am very blessed to have her on my team. It is hard to believe our grand opening is finally here! It has been months of very long days and jumping through lots of hoops, but seeing it all come to fruition has made it all worth it. I truly cannot wait to see our community enjoying this new wellness space.
“The goal in my design plan was to make this studio feel cozy and for clients to feel like they’re coming home when they enter our doors,” she added. “Our modern world is full of stress and toxic load, so we have done everything we can to curate a clean space for our community. This includes non-toxic cleaning products and laundry detergent, organic protein bars and supplements, and other retail items that provide toxin-free alternatives to daily-use products. We are ready to help our relax, rejuvenate and recover!”
Open to New Things
Never heard of vibroacoustic therapy? Or Pulsed Electromagnetic Field therapy? Neither had I until Taylor and Webb recently gave me a nickel tour of the Swift Recovery facility.
I’m familiar with some of the other therapies, like the cryotherapy. Professional athletes have used that for quite a while to help repair their bodies. Swift Recovery has two types, a stand-up compartment similar to a shower stall and a hand-operated wand for localized treatment. The standing one has a hole with soft collar for your head, to retain the sub-zero air circulating around your body. It has three levels of coldness, and you can stay in for 1, 2 or 3 minutes. Webb said most clients likely start on the lowest level and increase as they get accustomed to it, or when they desire.
Another therapy option is a cold plunge tank, which is in the same little room with a sauna. Way back in the day when I was a middling high school player, some of my teammates would get what we called “hot and colds.” Warm water in the whirlpool, followed by a dunk of a balky ankle in a tub of ice water. The back-forth helped with reduction of inflamation. Heartier souls might add ice to the whirlpool. Cold plunges are beneficial and aren’t new, despite what the BroDude FaceTock influencers might have you believe. Saunas and cold plunges are a way of life in Scandinavia, as well. Those are some hearty folks.
Webb offered to let me try the Pulsed Electromagnetic Field therapy. She secured two large, soft pads on either side of my cranky ankle. Inside the pads are coils that emit electromagnetic pulses, which range from soft and fast to slow and more intense. The pulses sound like a metronome … tock … tock … tock … tock. Webb and I talked for about 15 minutes while I moved the intensity dial from highest to lowest. I kept it on the highest setting for probably 8-10 minutes.
When we were done, my ankle felt different. Better. At least a little better than before I walked in. How? I don’t know. It just did. Perhaps it was because the electromagnetic pulses helped. Maybe it was because I was relaxed. Both? Maybe.
I’m open-minded to new things that might help with mental and physical wellness. If cryotherapy helps, that’s cool. If it’s vibroacoustic therapy, also cool. Keeping an open mind is a good thing.
